Mapping Critical Language Sites in Children Performing Verb Generation: Whole-Brain Connectivity and Graph Theoretical Analysis in MEG.

ABSTRACT: A classic left frontal-temporal brain network is known to support language processes. However, the level of participation of constituent regions, and the contribution of extra-canonical areas, is not fully understood; this is particularly true in children, and in individuals who have experienced early neurological insult. In the present work, we propose whole-brain connectivity and graph-theoretical analysis of magnetoencephalography (MEG) source estimates to provide robust maps of the pediatric expressive language network. We examined neuromagnetic data from a group of typically-developing young children (n = 15, ages 4-6 years) and adolescents (n = 14, 16-18 years) completing an auditory verb generation task in MEG. All source analyses were carried out using a linearly-cons

SUBMITTER: Youssofzadeh V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5380724 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature